Literary usage of Cumbering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.The American Merchant Marine: Its History and Romance from 1620 to 1902 by Winthrop Lippitt Marvin (1902)"... Brigantine, and Ketch — Crude Gear and cumbering Artillery — Skilful Shipwrights
of the New World SAVE for vague tradition and a few rude engravings, ..."

2.Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)"The Michigan laws have always made a distinction between "cumbering" and obstructing
a public way and "encroaching" on it The former term has been applied ..."

4.The Law of Municipal Corporations by John Forrest Dillon (1873)"Ib. Power to the common council of a city, by the charter, to adopt ordinances "to
prevent the cumbering of streets, sidewalks," &c., in view of the ..."